Cigar-perforating machine



UNITED Y STATE-s ADIE P. NEFF, or RELALMPENNSYLVANIA..

clGAR-PEREQRATINGMACHme. 1

SPECIFICATION farming par: of Letters Pittem.- No. 3.82.5454. afee Mayyafiaaa.

Appnmifm med March 11, rear. K serial No. 230.525. (No modem To au whom it may concern: f Be it known that I, ADIE P. NEFF, a citize of the United States, residing at Relay, inthe county of York and "State of Pennsylvania, 5 have invented an Improved Cigar]? eifrating Machine; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full and exact description of the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, making part of this specification, in which, Y

Figure 1 is a perspective view 'of the machine; Fig. 2, a plan view of the same, and Fig. 3 a plan view with the mold-board removed.

This invention relates to machines for perforating cigars from end to end, either before or after the wrapper is applied, by means of needles whichenter alternately the two ends of the cigar. To this end the cigars are placed in a mold-board fiXedly held in a suitable frame, and the cigars therein are perforated by means of needles carriedby a reciprocating slidingv carriage. ,In perforatingmachines it is desirable that the needles shall be as short as possible, so as to lessen as far as possible the chances of their being bent out of shape, and therefore two sets of needles in this machine are provided,whichenter alternately opposite ends of the cigars and traverse each cigar just past the center thereof, so that the two needles make a continuous perforation through the cigar. Itis also essential that the-two sets of needles shall be exactly in line with each other, so that the perforation shall be continuous; hence both sets are properly mounted on the same sliding carriage, which is a hollow rectangular'fralne surrounding and inclosing the stationary mold-board. To adapt the same machine to different-sized cigars requiring needles of different lengths and at different distances apart, each set of needles is carried by a plate detachably secured to the sliding carriage.

Referring to the drawings, Ais the supporting-frame,which rests upon any suitable stand or support. On the bed-plate B of'` this frame is placed the mold-board C, which contains the cigars to be treated. The mold-board C rests upon cross-.strips a a, placed on the bed-plate, which can be brought to-a truer level than the 5c entire surface of the bed-plate. `The moldboard is held from lateral and lengthwise displacementby means of angle-irons or guides D D, secured to the bed-plate.` Beneath the endsy of the mold-board the bed-plate is` cut y away 'atb b to facilitate the yremoval of the' 55 mold-board.

E is v,the rectangular reciprocating'needlecarrying carriage, composed of longitudinal rails c c and end rails, d d. This reciprocating .carriage slides laterally across the bed-plate 6c upon guide-rails ce, secured t0 the bed-plate.

The' rails of the sliding carriage are suitably groovedto'iit the rails e e, as shown in Fig-1, so that the carriage shall have no longitudinal or vertical movement.

The sliding carriage is reci procated by means of ashaft, F, journaled inthe supporting-frame beneath the bed-plate.` This shaft carries (at g one orboth ends, asV may be desired) apinion, G, vwhich meshes with a rack, H, fixed to the sliding carriage underneaththe same. If there are two pinious, there will be twojcorrespond-y ing racks. This shaft is rocked'or oscillated by means of levers I I, rigidly secured thereto. The movement of the levers thus moves the '15 sliding carriage from side to side to and `from the opposite sides of the mold-board.

t On the upper side of each of the longitudinal rails of the reciprocating carriage are dev v tachably secured the needle-plates J J. These/ 8o l are shown as attached by screws ff, so that they can be vremoved and others substituted. Secured to the plates and projecting inwardly toward each other are the needles g g. These needles are horizontally arranged atl a height so as to enter the exact centers of the cigars in' the mold-board, and the length of each needleV is slightly in excess of oneihalf the width of the mold-board, so that each may perforate a cigar rather more than half its length. Y The space between the points of the opposite sets of needles is greater than the width of the mold-board, so that the latter can be readily removed. The ends of f the vertical guides D D extend upward higher than the points of the needles, so that .in removing the moldboard it cannot accidentally come in contact with the ends of theneedles and bend the same.

In perating the machine, first one set of needles enters the cigars at one end and then the Io@ held in suitable guides on the frame, a reciprocating carriage embracing the moldeboard and mounted on suitable guides or ways on the frame, two sets of perforating-needles mounted, respectively, on opposite sides or rails of the carriage, and means for reciprocating the carriage on its ways,whereby the two sets of needles are caused to move simultaneously in the same direction and to alternately perforate the two ends of the cigars held in the mo1d-b0ard, substantially as and for the purpose herein specified.

2. The combination of a supportingframe, a. mold-board held in suitable guides on the frame, a reciprocating carriage embracing the mold-board and mounted on suitable guides or ways on the frame, two needle-plates removably attached to opposite sides or rails of the carriage and respectively provided with 25 sets of perforatingheedles, and means for reciprocating the carriage on its ways, substantially as and for the purpose herein set forth.

3. The combinatiomwitha supporting-frame provided with vertical guides to engage with 3o the mold-board, a removable mold-board, and the reciprocating carriage, of plates carrying performing-needles and detaehabiy secured to the longitudinal rails of the said carriage, and means for reciprocating the said earria ge, sub- 3 5 stantially as and for the purpose herein specified.

In Witness whereof I have hereunto signed my name in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

ADIE P. NEFF.

Witnesses: Y l

FRANK. l?. REEVER, C. T. OULP. 

